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these discussions of allegory, as with pei: 'Unless we choose to accept the doctrine of predestination, it is chance that makes history' : all presuppose that historical, or literal, events described in poems as allegory and metaphorical truths cannot be accepted as at once historically false and actually true : at first, the presupposition appears reasonable :